impend

• advance
• approach
• be dangerous
• be gathering
• be imminent
• be in the air
• be in the offing
• be on the horizon
• brew
• brewing
• close in
• come on
• draw on
• forebode
• foreshadow
• frighten
• gather
• hang
• hang over
• hover
• imperil
• jeopardize
• loom
• lour
• lower
• menace
• near
• overhang
• portend
• presage
• put at risk
• put in jeopardy
• threaten
• warn

• abate
• de-escalate
• decline
• die down
• diminish
• disappear
• dwindle
• ebb
• fade
• fall
• fall back
• lessen
• let up
• lower
• moderate
• pass
• recede
• relent
• remit
• retreat
• shrink
• subside
• taper
• taper off
• vanish
• wane
• withdraw

• verb
  1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
  2. Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
  3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
  4. To pay.

• The dark clouds in the sky indicate that a storm may impend soon.
• They were warned that disaster could impend if they didn't take immediate action.
• The deadline for the project is impend and everyone is working hard to finish on time.
• Tensions were high, and it was clear that something significant might impend in the political landscape.
• The sudden change in weather conditions suggests that heavy rain could impend within the next few hours.

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